A: The truth is, in some ways, those two big publishers have put stars in our eyes. Let’s start with the bad news. The bad news is these folks are spending potloads of money to create visually stunning digital media, money most of us do not have. The good news: You, too, can create an engaging mobile digimag as we call digital magazines, both cost-effectively and to great affect for your audience.

What do you need to create an iPad-ready cost-effective digimag? Here are 5 tips for the small to medium sized publisher ready to take advantage of the next stage of publishing.

Think hybrid: you’re working on a smallish screen, slightly bigger than the Kindle. You’re creating a hybrid product that looks like a magazine (gorgeous, hi-res and eminently user friendly) but acts like a computer/iPad. Type needs to be bigger, but don’t lose the white space we all love so much.

Think “a picture is worth a thousand words.” For the first time ever, portability is in the picture for digital magazines. Fill the space of the iPad with low-cost visuals. Examples of low-cost visuals: slideshows made from photos you have accrued over the years. In some ways, Apple has done us a favor by feuding with Adobe. You won’t have to hire a Flash designer to create visuals for you, as Flash is not supported by Apple. Adobe has come up with a workaround, however.

You don’t have to learn how to program for the iPad; leave that to your registered certified Apple developer. Your job is to communicate content in an extraordinary, visual and engaging way. Your certified Apple developer will get it to talk to the iPad through X language. Not your problem. Phew. You can create your digimag using the same software your fantastic designers have embraced, InDesign and Quark.

A corollary to 3: find a company that is a registered app provider. Most companies that specialize in digital magazines (Texterity, Zinio, to mention 2 large ones) have jumped to become Certified Apple Developers. In fact, Zinio’s app for reading magazines hit the #1 spot for most used

Don’t forget your advertiser. Your advertiser can benefit from the same low-tech highly effective tools you’re going to be using to communicate with your and their customer. Want to ask a question? Do a micro poll! Want to link to a demo? Go ahead. Want to ask them to give you an email address so they can contact you with more information? Easy enough.

EXTRA TIP: And really don’t forget your reader. The theory, which has been proven by us all as we blithely download music from iTunes and have our credit cards dinged, is that readersfor the first time ever in the history of digital media, will be willing to pay consistently fordigital content. This is such a step back in the right direction, that we must embrace it, love it, master the medium, and for goodness sake, market it.

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If I am not wrong. I think that adobe relased a tool to make magazine for iOS. So it is a easy tool but I think that the license fee is way to high. The other thing that you can do. it is to hire a small developer to do the work for you.

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Good advice in this article. We've recently been involved in setting up some of our magazine titles for the iPad and I can't stress enough how important point 3 is. Many managers will simply go to their IT teams and ask them to produce an iPad app as if it's the easiest thing in the world to do. It isn't! iPad developers get paid a lot for a reason, they've spent a lot of time learning how to do what they do and developing the required skills. You won't be able to do this overnight, so look for a good partner company who already have a successful app up and running.

thanks for the 5 great tips they are extremely helpful. It can really improve performance if you follow the steps to the dot and the finishing digimag can be very productive with clients worldwide... thanks for these tips !